iDIDJ Australia Didgeridoo Cultural Hub

This is a well-researched website on the Gupapuyngu people undertaken by Yasunori Hayashi. Nori is a friend and a didgeridoo player from Japan! He asked me to check for corrections but that's not needed really, the website is thorough and Nori has done an amazing job under the guidance of Michael Christie and John Greatorex at Charles Darwin University. There's stories, video recordings of song material, amazing family trees... check it out!

Note that Firefox is the recommended browser for viewing this website.

http://www.gupapuyngu.com/

Guan

Awesome !!!
The song-line panel is great !
The rest too
Bravo Nori ! I'm giving your site's link to the French Didj community hope they'll enjoy as much as I did.

dhapirrk true balangi
\they should do for every tribe

This is Nori from CDU. This is the first time to get involved in iDIDJ Australia Didgeridoo Cultural Hub Please kindly welcome me.

Guan: thank you very much for introducing Gupapuyngu website (www.gupapuyngu.com) and checking contents.

Ahaw: glad to hear that you enjoy song-line panel which took long preparation in the field (discussion about the order of songs, who are appropriate song men and yiḏaki player. David Dharrapuy was supposed to play yiḏaki and sing songs in this project, but due to the fuel problem in the weekend at Ramingining, I couldn't pick him up at his place. I love his explosively powerful sound! Then, thank you for letting your french didj community about the website, if they have any comments or suggestion, please feel free to do so through here or e-mail to yasunori.hayashi@students.cdu.edu.au

Garawirrtjaboys: Yuw marrkapmirri walal. Yes, as you point out, we should do sort of same thing for other clan nations. At the end of the day, lots of clan groups present some of cultures of yolngu, by yolngu, for yolngu, it is not a dream to establish "Garma" site on internet where viewers can choose clans and learn their culture. This would be a next step for me.

Yuw, thank you

Nori

Hi Nori,

Welcome my friend, good to see you here and again congratulations on your research and hard work, it is really nice to know that as didgeridoo players we are not only interested in didgeridoo but the wider Indigenous culture(s) to which the instrument belongs. One little question I have for you... did you hear something from Gupapuyngu people that they didn't have manikay before, only dalkarra? I am curious about this and have wanted to learn more about it.

Cheers,

Guan

Hi Guan,

When I first heard the story from some Yolngu people that Gupapuyngu(Djiliwirri) originally had no manikay(song), I was in big questioned. As F***k M****a, Joe Djembangu and Trevor Djarrgaygay tell stories in Story tag under Murayana (at http://www.gupapuyngu.com/story.html), as long as I understand, people (Gaykamangu Gupapuyngu) at Djiliwirri had no manikay initially, but only ḏalkarra were living there. Then those ḏalkarra saw Murayana dancing and playing yiḏaki at Bari with adoring ceremonial pole ritual called marradjiri, and the ḏalkarra people were excited to watch Murayana's cool move and nice sound of yiḏaki. then imitated the move and the tune. Lastly those people adopted these ritual elements for themselves and for their mother's mother's group (which is Bari). It is like one stone hits two birds; singing songs from Bari at Djiliwirri makes Djiliwirri meaningful and Bari activating. But it is still unclear for me whether Murayana actually sang songs? Murayana played yiḏaki and danced, but where the songs come from? Same thing can be said to the hollow log ceremony at Gapuwiyak where only ḏalkarra were living and Murayana brought hollow log ceremony (djaḻumbu) to that place for those ḏalkarra. Murayana loves dancing, playing yiḏaki and perhaps singing, I think this is one of the provisional nature of indigenous knowledge which is always negotiable... I would like to hear your view as well.

Hi all,

glad I logged-in today and saw a post relating to this. I didn't really have time to look right now, but I couldn't help myself and had a brief look. I enjoyed seeing Gambung.

Nori, long time since we've been in touch - you have done a great job of this. I look forward to visiting the website again and learning so much more.

thankyou.

Wonderful!

Yow bukmak walala (Hi all),
I have been away for Laynhapuy homeland and under huge pressure of writing thesis at CDU
While I was away, I received two messages

from Peter Lister (hi, it's really long time no see. where are you now? hope to see you in the near future in NT.
By chance I met Gambung at Bula'bula art centre last year while he sold his sensational paintings and he agreed
to share stories for Gupapuyngu website.)

from Davefinch (hi, nice to meet you. Thank you for looking at Gupapuyngu website. The main motivation of Gupapuyngu study
for me is their peculiar style of yiḏaki. Their typical ceremonial yiḏaki is long and with very low key, but their sound (especially
for David Dharrapuy being often introduced by Guan on Youtube) always just blows my mind

Thank you and see you soon,

Nori